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My favourite songs from a really good month in music.

25. The Knocks & Walk The Moon – Best For Last

24. Bloc Party – So Real

23. Night Beds – Corner

22. David Guetta f. Sia & Fetty Wap – Bang My Head

21. Rostam – Wood

20. Brett – Claire Drained

19. Gemini – Time To Share

18. Mu – Vampire

Bonus: Stark Sands with Punch Brothers – The Last Thing On My Mind

Recently watched Inside Llewyn Davis, so that’s why.

17. You Say Party – Ignorance

16. Zhu – In The Morning

15. The Chainsmokers f. Daya – Don’t Let Me Down

14. King Charles – Choke

13. Icona Pop – Someone Who Can Dance

12. Wild Ones – Dim The Lights

11. Wintersleep – Territory

10. Chemical Brothers – Wide Open

This sounds like Lisbon in the summer. I don’t know that sound yet, but I will soon…

9. Foxes – Cruel

8. Charlie Puth & Selena Gomez – We Don’t Talk Anymore

7. 5 Seconds of Summer – Jet Black Heart

Not sure they’d come close to “She Looks So Perfect” again. They have with this one.

6. Adele – Send My Love

Adele is all-powerful, so there is no audio available on Youtube. So in its stead, a pretty good cover of a really good song.

5. Allie X – OLD HABITS DIE HARD

Really talented songwriter. This is the gitch.

4. Sia – Move Your Body/Cheap Thrills/Broken Glass/House on Fire/Footprints

Sia is brilliant. Soooooo many hooks.

3. Jordan Klassen – No Salesman

I’m so thankful to have come across this haunting masterpiece. What a voice and what a melody. Wow.

2. Yeasayer – Prophecy Gun

Simply, one of the best bands on the planet. The chills. Always.

1. The 1975 – Somebody Else/A Change of Heart

The full versions of both of these mega-monster tunes aren’t available on Youtube, so the previews will have to suffice. It’s only March, but these will end up being two of the best songs of 2016, I have no doubt.

Sometimes, despite your best intentions, you can’t keep up with the vast amounts of music released in a given year — an especially salient point the last few years, where the proliferation of sharing tools has made finding music an audiophile’s dream. That’s normal — we miss things because we can’t help it. Born of this reality, we discover, or rediscover songs that aren’t new to many, but are new to us. You might discover a song that’s 30 years old, be blown away by how good it is, and also miffed by how you missed finding it for so long. Other times, you liked or loved a song in the past, and have, for one reason or another, found your way back to that song, where either a new experience is created or a memory is revisited in some strong, compelling, and often magical way. Such is the power of music, and the connectivity it shares with our senses and past experiences. Here is, in alphabetical order, my Top Discovered/Rediscovered in 2012 list:

ABBA – The Visitors/When All Is Said And Done